Figures suggest National deliberately excluded farming

Figures showing the dairy industry would be categorised as high risk if there were a further five severe injuries within a year, strongly suggests National designed its flawed system to deliberately exclude farming, Labour’s spokesperson for Labour Issues Iain Lees-Galloway says.

“The Workplace Relations and Safety Minister set thresholds for what industries would be designated as high risk.

“There are 1000 severe injuries per year in dairying. If there were 1005, it would be classified as a high risk activity.